Posted on 03/01/2025 1:34:25 PM PST by grundle
So the law of supply and demand works.
Hawaii should take notice.
As does limited government. Provably.
And that is supposed to be a good thing? Creating denser and denser high rise apartments with few and fewer parking spaces? No thank you.
Sounds like self-inflicted 15-minute cities.
the other thing that the left always gets wrong on this is trying to build NEW affordable housing.
New will NEVER be affordable!
The new stuff is built to temp the highest incomes into them, which move from where they are making room for someone below. This continues all the way down the food chain until you get to the bottom lowest level of rentals which then become available or cant fully rent without dropping the price.
No parking spaces, in Texas? All those cars now taking up spots on the street.
We study history of cities and say "If only they had done better, the city could have thrived longer and possibly continue thriving into the future".
The financiers and developers study a city and say, "We can make x amount of money cutting corners and screwing people before it goes too far and it becomes a losing investment. By that time, we'll have moved onto the next one."
Their history of creating slums, clear-cutting forests, polluting lakes, rivers, soil, and groundwater, etc. - It's all just a pump-and-dump scheme to them. Peasants be damned.
Yeah, it’s great.
Rainey st. Is now surrounded by 14 story buildings.
The partiers on the rooftops can drop drinks on everyone walking the party street.
Austin died when they bulldozed the Armadillo.
High density rentals = More democrats
They do in every instance except where the gov't steps in and mucks it up. Never forget: All the gov't can do in any market is redirect resources from one (often productive) use to another (often less productive) use.
When I was at UT Austin in the 1990s, new students were given a spoof parking map. Oklahoma and New Mexico were listed as “Remote Parking”
Those units should rent for much less, because they’ll be much less desirable.
“ higher density and taller apartment buildings, made it easier to get building permits, and eliminated the parking space requirements.”
Sounds like a Chinese hellhole city
The left is endorsing ending the parking requirements which sounds ominous to me.
I lived a long time on the beach where there was almost no parking for the residences and the street parking was constantly full which meant that many had to park blocks away from their apartments and during the summer beach days and events people would have to park a half mile or more away, which is a terrible way to live.
If you found a spot, you did not want to leave for an errand or shopping, or to visit someone, personally I had two parking spots on the dirt of my little shack which made me rich in parking, and made me a fair amount of money whenever I had only one vehicle and would charge a monthly rental on the other spot.
TEXAS GETS IT RIGHT AGAIN, even in left wing Austin, also known as “Berkley on the Colorado.”
They want us to live in hives with no cars.
The Armadillo was the best.
In the 70’s downtown was a great place to be.
The libs have destroyed it. I won’t go back.
Austin is a LOUSY example.
Dan’s in left field on this one.
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